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"Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in an undecided state.  But there's a limit to how much unresolved 'stuff' it can contain before it blows a fuse," writes David Allen in Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity:

"The short-term memory of your mind — the part that tends to hold all of those incomplete, undecided, and unorganized 'stuff' — functions much like RAM on a personal computer.  Your conscious mind, like the computer screen, is a focusing tool, not a storage place.  You can think about only two or three things at once.  But the incomplete items are still being stored in the short-term memory space.  And as with RAM, there's limited capacity; there's only so much 'stuff' you can store in there and still have that part of your brain function at a high level.  Most people walk around with their RAM bursting at the seams.  They're constantly distracted, their focus disturbed by their own internal mental overload....

"The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.  It has no sense of past or future.  That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time."

Getting Things Done

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country.

Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential.

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